Insights & Intelligence

A Jupiter home bought in 2025 pays 18.73 mills, about 1.87 percent of the price in year one: $93,634 on a $5 million purchase. Where each dollar goes, three worked bills, the homestead cap, and the 2026 fire rescue change.

The island's BeachesMLS feed recorded 685 closings at $739 per square foot in 2021 and 287 at $1,455 in 2025. Sales fell by more than half, prices nearly doubled, and the 2026 data through August shows sales climbing again with prices holding.

Of 1,204 luxury closings in the last twelve months, 55 percent found their buyer by week twelve. Sellers who waited longer gave up about 12 points of the original asking price. This study draws the full survival curve from a year of Palm Beach County closed sales.

Related Ross announces a second tower pair on South Flagler Drive before the first delivers. What the sequel changes, from Kohn Pedersen Fox design to a $5.5M entry, and how the published terms have moved since launch.

A town of eight streets became the island's hottest small market. The median sale ran $940K in 2016 and $5.1M by 2022, and the record is $30.2M. Jupiter Inlet Colony, measured on its own.

The island corridor logged 84 repeat sales from 2016 through August 2026. The median pair returned 17 percent a year and 79 of 84 resold higher, with the steepest gains for owners who bought before 2021. The honest appreciation record, cautions included.

Great Gulf brings Mandarin Oriental's first Florida residences to Northwood: a Safdie Architects tower with 215 feet of Intracoastal frontage, from a reported $3.5M, targeted for 2031. Why the brand went north of every proven price in the city.

Through the repricing years, Jupiter Island houses built before 1980 out-priced houses built after 2000 per square foot in four of six years. A 1935 house holds the per-foot record. The year-by-year inversion, its close to parity in the trailing twelve months, and what it says about the land.

July closed 115 sales at $3M and above for $807.2M in volume. Homes went under contract faster than in June despite the summer lull, and a $33.8M Bears Club estate led the month.

The warehouse revival on North Dixie Highway gets its first residences for sale: 117 homes on 11 floors, stated from $2M. A rooftop of pool, bowling and pickleball sits above the street commerce. Why the neighborhood itself is the product.

Nineteen buildings on one road, 283 sales and $425.6M in the decade through August 2026, from inlet condos in the hundreds of thousands to SeaGlass at $12.5M. Every building ranked by its record, and what the 2021 repricing did to the whole ladder.

Palm Beach had 198 residences on the market as of August 2026 and exactly one house priced below five million dollars. Everything else under that number is an apartment, oceanfront starts at $275K in a building and $18.2M as a house, and the market carries about 8 months of supply. The island buyer's briefing.